In a report published on November 12, 2026, at 11:08 a.m. (UTC+8), ChainCatcher said elizaOS founder Shaw had retracted his earlier description of code posted to the GitHub repository lalalune/pumpfun-source as open source.
Shaw said the code was not his and that he had never had the right to publish or license it, or to authorize anyone else to use it. According to Shaw, the repository’s “Copyright (c) 2026 Shaw” notice and similar license text were not valid licenses and granted no rights.
He said neither his earlier statements nor those notices should be treated as permission to use, copy, fork, modify, build on or distribute the code. He also said people should not distribute or attempt to reverse-engineer pump.fun code, which he described as copyright-protected.
